Edmond, an advocate, financed (1849-51) the Free Church's access to the Divinity College, later Christ's College in Alford Place and his portrait hung there until the College closed and the works came to the University. George Reid, (1841-1913) trained in Edinburgh, in Holland studying with G.A. Mollinger and J. Israels, and in Paris. Initially a landscape painter he increasingly worked as a portraitist. He is closely associated with John Forbes White, the Aberdeen patron and collector.

Lady Dorothea Sinclair was the daughter of the 9th Earl of Caithness. She was briefly married to James Duff, Lord Fife from 1759. See ABDUA: 30756.

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Lord Fife (1729-1809) was the son of Lord Braco who commissioned Duff House from William Allan. From 1759 he was briefly married to Lady Dorothea Sinclair. See ABDUA: 30757.

At the union of King's and Marischal Colleges in 1860 six new chairs were instituted. Milligan was the first holder of the chair of Biblical Criticism in the faculty of Divinity (1860-93). George Reid, (1841-1913) trained in Edinburgh, in Holland studying with G.A. Mollinger and J. Israels, and in Paris. Initially a landscape painter he increasingly worked as a portraitist. He is closely associated with John Forbes White, the Aberdeen patron and collector. An engraving of the painting is also in the collection (see ABDUA: 31321).

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McKail was a medical practitioner in Aberdeen who graduated from King's College in 1696. He was a medical author whose son succeeded to the Chair of medicine in Marischal College in 1717.]]> ABDUA:3075]]> ABDUA:3024]]>
Double portrait exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society in 1908 which may relate to this work. Aberdeen born Strachan (1875-1950) studied at RSA school in Edinburgh and travelled extensively in Europe and North Africa. He is now regarded principally as a designer of stained glass, numerous examples of which are in Aberdeen University buildings. He also worked, particularly early in his career, as a mural painter and portraitist.]]> ABDUA:3031]]> ABDUA:3032]]> ABDUA:3272]]> ABDUA:3270]]> ABDUA:3271]]> ABDUA:3274]]> ABDUA:3275]]>
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